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The owner of the City Gas chain, who overcharged customers, terrorized his attendants, and ordered two people killed, must sell his business and pay $1.75 million in fines and restitution as part of the life sentence he received for two contract...

A businessman who built a lucrative chain of gas stations on a foundation of violence and fraud was spared the death penalty yesterday when a Federal jury in Brooklyn decided that life in prison was sufficient punishment for the two murders he...

After arguments yesterday in which prosecutors urged execution for a ''remorseless murderer'' and defense lawyers invoked the ''force of mercy,'' a Federal jury in Brooklyn is to deliberate today on whether to impose a death sentence on the owner of...

An immigrant from India who prosecutors said built and protected a chain of lucrative gasoline stations with fraud and violence was convicted in Brooklyn yesterday of murder charges that could bring the death penalty. The defendant, Gurmeet Singh...

March 3, 1999, Wednesday

A Brooklyn jury began deliberations yesterday in the capital trial of a gas station mogul charged with ordering two murders as part of a mob-style enterprise. The defendant, Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa, 36, the owner of the City Gas chain of service...

February 24, 1999, Wednesday

A former gas station tycoon facing racketeering charges in New York City and two other people have been ordered to pay $11.1 million for polluting the groundwater beneath a Bronx gas station, officials said yesterday. An Albany County jury ordered...

An Indian immigrant who went from pumping gas in the Bronx to owning a chain of 50 service stations built his empire on a cold-blooded combination of fraud and murderous violence, a prosecutor charged yesterday at the man's Federal death penalty...

The police arrested a Queens man yesterday and charged him with taking part in a contract murder sought by his cousin, a multimillionaire owner of a chain of gas stations. The man, Sareem Vippan, who also uses the name Gulzar Singh, was charged...

Shortly after Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa arrived in the United States a dozen years ago, he began to build an empire of gas stations that would earn him a fortune. But he also began to break the laws of his adopted country, law enforcement officials say,...